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We want to THANK East Towne & West Towne Mall for hosting Clothes for Kids, an annual back-to-school clothing drive for program participants at CAC. With their help we were able to supply 43 households with new clothing for their school-age children!! What a wonderful gift to our community. This

A special thanks to Melissa Willkomm and the children of BASE in Fort Atkinson, an after care program in Jefferson County! They helped decorate our offices during Kids for Kids. Thank you for making our office a more welcoming place 🙂

We are pleased to welcome Bridgette Weber to our team at CAC as our new Community Engagement/Fund Development Specialist. Bridgette is a social entrepreneur and community organizer, previous president of the Oshkosh Food Cooperative and Treasurer for Sarvodaya USA. Bridgette has helped a variety of small businesses to establish

UW Health generously donated a refrigerated van to CAC! This van will help us expand our CAC Gleaners program and feed more people in need. We’ll be using this van to make food pick-ups from the Dane County Farmers’ Market, Epic Systems, and a variety of other partners. Thank you

Willy Street Co-op is supporting the CAC Double Dollars program for the month of July! For every reusable bag used, the Co-op will make a $0.10 contribution, and for every reused paper or plastic bag, the Co-op will make a $0.05 contribution. To make a donation to the Double Dollars Fund,

CAC is beyond honored to announce that Heather Garcia has won the 2018 Wisconsin Social Services Association (WSSA) Human Services Award! Heather is a Caseworker in CAC’s Waukesha office, working with the Eviction Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Programs. The WSSA Human Service Award recognizes “the efforts of an individual who

CAC hosted our inaugural fashion show in our free clothing center on Thursday, June 14th. It was a fun night of fashion and celebration as our models walked the runway. Whether it was professional, casual, or wacky, our models highlighted all of the incredible styles our clothing center has to

CAC collected 49,697 pound of food from Stamp Out Hunger on Saturday, May 12th! Thank you to all of the amazing volunteers who came out to help us, the Madison postal office, and the National Association of Letter Carriers. Food from the drive was distributed to CAC, The River Food

Saturday May 12th, 2018, 1-8pm Help out at the largest food drive in Dane County on Saturday, May 12th! The Annual National Association of Letter Carrier’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive is fast approaching and CAC needs your help! Volunteers will be unloading mail vehicles that are stuffed with bags

CAC’s Food Security Division distributes over 3 million pounds of food each year to over 90 food outlets throughout Dane, Jefferson, and Waukesha Counties. Our delivery trucks are absolutely crucial to us getting out the food to those most in need throughout South Central Wisconsin. One of our trucks